Best Horror Movies: The 50 Scariest Movies of All Time
Written by SOURCE on November 5, 2019
Director: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez
Starring: Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams
If, 20 years from now, you find yourself in the bind of having to explain how found footage became the technique in horror movies, you have to trace it back to the source, to the little indie that did, The Blair Witch Project.
Released in 1999, the film wanted you to see it as non-fiction, the actual record of three students pursuing a local legend in Maryland. If you can put yourself into the mindset of that late ’90s viewer, who was led to believe that this was all real, it still holds up as terrifying.
Costing less than a million dollars, The Blair Witch Project went on to gross about 250 times that amount. This is the model for countless films, and to be an informed, developed viewer of film, you have to go back to the blueprint.
